Management

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, Management, NonFiction, Business, Sports lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Business, Management, NonFiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

From the time we learn to speak, we?re told that if you don?t have anything nice to say, don?t say anything at all. While this advice may work for everyday life, it is, as Kim Scott has seen, a disaster when adopted by managers.Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google and then decamped to Apple, where she developed a class ...

"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers." David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As newly appointed captain of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclearpowered submarine, he was responsible for more than a hundred sailors, deep in the sea. In this highs...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, Management, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of 25. She...

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two bestselling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of t...

Written in a fastpaced thriller style, 'The Goal' contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints developed by the author....

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful actionoriented strategy for the real world Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO at a Fortune 100 company, an entrepreneur, a church pastor, the head of a schoo...

Seasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an insider's guide to Google, from its business history and disruptive corporate strategy to developing a new managment philosophy and creating a corporate culture where innovation and creativity thrive. Seasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an i...

Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity like all great breakthroughs Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry ...

The ?work from home? phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits. Most important, they show why ? with a few controversial exceptions such as...

In this stunning followup to his bestselling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni offers up another leadership fable that's every bit as compelling and illuminating as its predecessor. This time, Lencioni's focus is on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organizationan often overlooked but essential element of busines...

Don Keough—a former top executive at CocaCola and now chairman of the elite investment banking firm Allen & Company—has witnessed plenty of failures in his sixtyyear career (including New Coke). He has also been friends with some of the most successful people in business history, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch, a...

Haters are not your problem. . . . Ignoring them is. Eighty percent of companies say they deliver out­standing customer service, but only 8 percent of their customers agree. This book will help you close that gap by reconfiguring your customer service to deliver knockout experiences. The nearuniversal adoption of smartphones and social media has...

The cofounder of Fast Company shows that opportunities for extraordinary innovation may be closer than you think. A new era of business and leadership cries out for new stories of success, and new strategies for bringing them to life. Today, the way to win big, argues bestselling author William C. Taylor, is to relentlessly rethink the everyday. Th...

A decade ago, The Oz Principle took the business world by storm. At its root, the principle works like this: Like Dorothy and the gang in The Wizard of Oz, most businesspeople have the tools to succeed, but when things go wrong they blame circumstance or others instead of looking within for the true cause of unsatisfactory results. Once individuals...

Economist, consultant, and Wall Street Journal contributor Alfred Rappaport provides managers and investors with the practical tools and tests for a corporate strategy that creates shareholder value.The ultimate test of corporate strategy, the only reliable measure, is whether it creates economic value for shareholders. After a decade of downsizing...

Forget what you know about the world of workYou crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and...

In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company the Exponential Organization that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using Technology,....

In this landmark new book, James Womack and Daniel Jones deconstruct this broken producerconsumer model and show businesses how to repair it.A massive disconnect exists between consumers and providers today. Consumers have a greater selection of higher quality goods to choose from and can obtain these items from a growing number of sources. Comput...

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.We?ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from t...

You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it's easy to let immediate problems and old mindsets get in the way.Herminia Ibarra?an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor...

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone wi...

?The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a book every leader should read.? ?Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator?s Dilemma For fans of Good to Great and The First 90 Days, The Four Disciplines of Execution is the foundational text for creating lasting organizational change. A #1 Wall Street Journal bestsell...

Coaching is an essential skill for leaders. But for most busy, overworked managers, coaching employees is done badly, or not at all. They?re just too busy, and it?s too hard to change. But what if managers could coach their people in 10 minutes or less In Michael Bungay Stanier?s The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of yo...

THE "SEMINAL BOOK ON POWER" (NEW YORK TIMES) THAT "CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE FIELD" (HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW) "A landmark historian" (Jon Meacham), James MacGregor Burns, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, devoted his legendary career to the study of leadership in all its aspects?from politics to business. Leadership, Burns'...

?This book is your chance to learn from others? mistakes.? Entrepreneur In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, ?Fired Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.? There are thou...

When Fortune Magazine estimated that 70% of all strategies fail, it also noted that most of these strategies were basically sound, but could not be executed. The central premise of Strategic Project Management Made Simple is that most projects and strategies never get off the ground because of adhoc, haphazard, and obsolete methods used to turn the...

MEET YOUR GOALS?ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.How do you rein in the scope of your project when you?ve got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck And map out a schedule everyone can stick to And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attentionWhether you?re managing your first project or just tired of impr...

The effectiveness of a good strategy well implemented determines a business' future success or failure. Yet history is full of strategic decisions, big and small, that were illconceived, poorly organised and consequently disastrous. This updated guide looks at the whole process of strategic decisionmaking from vision, forecasting, and resource ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Management, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Whether you are organising an important event or heading up a large team, running a project can be a daunting process. Spiralling costs and missed deadlines are part of everyday life for many project managers in fact, more projects fail than succeed!But project management doesn't have to be this way. It is possible to manage projects that consist...

During his many years as a senior executive at Starbucks, Howard Behar helped establish the Starbucks culture, which stresses people over profits. He coached hundreds of leaders at every level and helped the company grow into a worldrenowned brand. Now he reveals the ten principles that guided his leadershipand not one of them is about coffee. Be...

The bestselling guide to the field, updated with the latest innovations Essentials of Supply Chain Management is the definitive guide to the field, providing both broad coverage and necessary detail from a practical, realworld perspective. From clear explanation of fundamental concepts to insightful discussion of supply chain innovation, this book...

Best practices for managing projects in agile environmentsnow updated with new techniques for larger projects Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromi...

As the longtime #1 bestseller, Garrison has helped guide close to 3 million students through managerial accounting since it was first published. It identifies the three functions managers must perform within their organisations plan operations, control activities, and make decisions and explains what accounting information is necessary for th...

The secret to succeeding in a disruptive world. When CEOs think about the supply chain, it's usually to cut costs. But the smartest leaders see supply chain and sourcing for what they can be: hidden tools for outperforming the competition. Steve Jobs, upon returning to Apple in 1997, focused on transforming the supply chain. He hired Tim Cookand t...

To remain innovative in today s market, companies have to adopt a culture of learning and customercentric practices that are focused on outcomes rather than outputs. This book provides product managers with a practical process that focuses on finding opportunities to solve customer problems and achieve business goals.Author Melissa Perri provides ...

Resourceful companies today must successfully manage the entire supply flow, from the sources of the firm, through the valueadded processes of the firm, and on to the customers of the firm. The fifteenth edition of Operations and Supply Chain Management provides wellbalanced coverage of managing people and applying sophisticated Technology, to ope...

From the author of the groundbreaking book Reinvent Your Business Model, a new approach for thinking about the future and turning your most promising and creative ideas into reality. We all know visionary leaders when we see them. In business, they are lastnameonly disrupters like Jobs, Bezos, and Hastings, and, in politics, they are such transfo...

From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation.Whether you?ve ?seen it all? or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral r...

Ranked 'BEST STARTUP BOOKS OF ALL TIME'' by BenzingaRanked' BEST GROWTHHACKING BUSINESS BOOKS' by Entrepreneur.com#1 BESTSELLER in 5 Startup & Entrepreneurship CategoriesThis compelling and inspiring narrative gives entrepreneurs a rare behindthescenes look inside a fastgrowing startup that created the first online dating app and grew to 100...

No project management training No problem!In today?s workplace, employees are routinely expected to coordinate and manage projects. Yet, chances are, you aren?t formally trained in managing projects?you?re an unofficial project manager.FranklinCovey experts Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, and James Wood understand the importance of leadership in pr...

A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process The SingleSource, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, singlesource reference you've been searching for. Leading Scrum coach a...

In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on fieldtested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now ...

Imagine, if you can, the world of business without corporate strategy. Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a largescale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics. But ...

Hiring Smart!: How To Predict Winners And Losers In The Incredibly Expensive PeopleReading GameNow in Paperback!People are the most valuable asset in today's fiercely competitive workplace. In HIRING SMART, now available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Mornell delineates 45 simple strategies for "people reading"observing a candidate's beha...